Milda Daunoraite at St Mary’s
‘If music be the food of love . . .the simplicity and mastery of inspired music making’
I have heard Milda over the past few years and her musical progress has been remarkable. The very first time I heard her was at her audition for the Keyboard Trust where Leslie Howard was completely won over by her personality both at the keyboard and in the short interview afterwards.
I have since heard her at the National Liberal Club series for the KT and even went on tour with her to Italy. In Florence she not only captivated the elite audience in the Harold Acton Library but she even captivated some Lithuanian waiters in a restaurant the next day with whom she was happy to share her music in return for a free lunch, a red rose……..and a glass of Limoncello she mischievously added later! With Milda you get what you see! Music is so much part of her that her music making takes on a radiant sense of discovery and ebullient joy with the beauty and eloquence that pours from her fingers with music speaking even louder than words. It is thanks to her teacher Tessa Nicholson who over the past years has given her a technical mastery which you could well describe as ‘canons covered in flowers’.
